Information Competency

Basic Information Competencies

9. Critical Thinking in the Age of Information

Use, evaluate, and treat critically information received from the mass media

8. Ethics & rules

Understand the ethical, legal, and socio-political issues surrounding information and information technology, including using and citing sources

Exigency: Need to Know and Communicate

What is the rhetoric need?

1. Define the research topic.

What do you need to know and do?

2. Information requirements needed

Determine the information requirements for the research question, problem, or issue, serving you, your audience, the subject, and the occasion

3. Locate and retrieve relevant information.

Locate and retrieve relevant information

Information Gathering Behaviors: How to do it

Student and faculty strategies and tools

4. Technological tools

Use the technological tools for accessing information, including the Internet's Search engines and the Library

5. Evaluate information.

Critical judgment and common standards to assess information

6. Organize and synthesize information.

General considerations and strategies, including prewriting, synthesizing a THESIS, selecting and apportioning DEVELOPMENTAL points and materials, and organization principles.

Cicero: exordium, narratio, partitio, confirmatio, confutatio, and conclusio

ORGANIZATION PRINCIPLES

Technological tools for organizing & synthesizing

7. Communicating Results of Research

Communicate using a variety of information technologies, including writing, webpage essays/reports, and Powerpoint

Writing Stages

Prewriting, planning and organization, draft, revising, rewriting, and proofreading

Technological tools to facilitate writing

10. Judge the product and the process.

Does product meet the essential rhetorical need?

Information Competency Reconsidered

What happens next?